Tag Archives: wifi

9638 – Thursday – repairing internet connection on the eee

See entry comments for mysql code snips in use. Saving on j:/uiia/qmysql/


"modem wont work, on msn it says DNS and key ports with an ‘!’ but the internet in general wont’ work"

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2.

For these commands, Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log

Also try –

No?
ok, go to your start menu, click run, in the box type:
ipconfig /release

hopefully that fixes it.. it worked for me!


Tonight in brief – – Last Restaurant Standing (I think the Cheerful Soul is going to win LRS. ),

BHK picked me up from work, Frozen pizza for dinner, hysteria at bedtime..laughing turned to crying, and lots of itching – allergy meds?

1 year ago – awesome taco salad, Doc Savage 75, Clinton still in it, more things I’ve done (5), airborne faked clinical trials

2 years ago – interviewed at calvert, flew kites

3 years ago – animated newtcam archive, bhk chat, bat-folk, Friday 5, tmbg

4 years ago – scottobear.com renew, trip to deerfield, free fonts, chat crash w/bhk,gp puts me on to spidey bible, what? WhaT?, H2GT2G, Chimp attack, giantsteps

5 years ago – blogspam treatment, work, serial adder, 7-eared kitty, clown sweater, Ephemera, visited bro

6 years ago – book meme, palm doodles, picture issues

7 years ago – mopey, bro helping out, Dick Hymen – Master of Jazz Piano, super tugboat, Newton’s name, pet name poll, magic ingredients

8 years ago – Perseus tools, loved ones sick, flying monkeys, The 30 Least-Quoted Lines from Shakespeare, nosepilot, 5k compGeotarget

9326 – thursday

It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Joss – maybe I can take BHK on a little date there to celebrate the felling of the trees this weekend. Barring that, maybe the trolley will happen. I’m not sure why I’m so gung-ho about riding it.

BHK made fajitas tonight – tasty and super healthy!



via tiffany bridge

The Smithsonian has joined The Commons on Flickr, which started as a pilot between the Library of Congress and Flickr to increase access to publicly-held photo collections and allow the public to contribute knowledge and information (such as tags) to those collections.

The Smithsonian’s photostream contains some fantastic gems, including portraits of scientists, cyanotypes cataloging the Smithsonian’s other collections, and cool photos from past Folklife festivals.




the ethics of stealing Wi-Fi. Many of us been guilty of the same crime at one point or another — according to the article, 53% of us at least. But how guilty do we really feel? As it is officially a crime to steal wi-fi (Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who ‘intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access’).


When two plastics (polymers TTF and TCNQ) are placed atop one another, a thin strip forms that conducts electricity “as well as a metal”.

The TTF-TCNQ interface conducts electricity much better than standard semiconductors. “The electron concentration there is an order of magnitude higher,” Mannhart says. “That has the power to create new effects, from magnetism to superconductivity.”


GeotargetVisitor Map1 year ago – pogontrophy, shoes, agnostic’s prayer, work- day 2, outside pics

2 years ago – bdays!, doing ok about dad, weaver dies, choco-dice, walking on air, monday meetings

3 years ago – pictures(motorcycle and newt), tut, lj interests, jbee b-day, gp dream, severe thunder, ft laud evacuation info for hurricanes, UFO tv losses

4 years ago – palm vnc, Newt Chroma key, paypal spoof warning

5 years ago – doctor’s appointment, time-traveler micronaut, lizard!, clear sky clock, baby dolphin beached

6 years ago – packing, location thoughts, bicycle, brushing newt-teeth

7 years ago – evil news, Jb’s bday, gadabout, lj-topology, time for timer, crown of crap, sambo’s

8 years ago – roadworkGeotargetVisitor Map

9295 – Tuesday

Dick Martin died. Why does this make me feel bad or nostalgic? Laugh-in was old hat before I was born, but I loved seeing it on Nick at Nite.



Forgot to mention the awesome sub/pizza shop discovered on Saturday. Selby Sub Shoppe – found when we took a wrong turn looking for Thai food. Best mistake we could’ve made. Larry was especially happy that he didn’t have to consume anything involving curry or green beans. He got chicken wings, while BHK, Chris and I gobbled down some white pizza… with red sauce on the side.

So good. Also good was the lemon coconut cake, lemon pie, chocolate mousse pie and the lemon cookies. We seem to have an inordinate amount of lemon fondness in our desserts.



Random statement – I don’t think that Andy Kaufman was very funny, even in a meta-way. Entertainingly random, at best.



Current music – The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson

If you were falling, then I would catch you.
You need a light, I'd find a match.

'cause I love the way you say good morning.
And you take me the way I am.
If you are chilly, here take my sweater.
Your head is aching, I'll make it better.

'cause I love the way you call me baby.
And you take me the way I am.

I'd buy you Rogaine if you start losing all your hair.
Sew on patches to all you tear.

'cause I love you more than I could ever promise.
And you take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.
You take me the way I am.




BHK got her first filling today – her personal tooth-care is far superior to mine.



Dreamt last night of being at the Disney lagoon – BHK and I were swimming with giant sharks, eels – no fish was smaller than half my size, most of them were between 30-40 feet long. At one point I was kidnapped, and was told that if I escaped, my entire family would be killed. I grabbed the person and immobilized him by snapping his arms and legs off like dried twigs – when I went to finish him, the police showed up and told me that his brain shouldn’t be damaged, as they needed it to ge tthe information on how he would hurt folks. I didn’t care to see him live, but I relented – though only if I could pack his head with salt and ash. That was ok with the police, who decapitated him, and put his noggin in a clear tube for analysis… the head was somehow still alive, but as long as he couldn’t speak, he couldn’t hurt us… some sort of vampire, or lich, maybe?


Adam is home from Haiti – note form MVW

[…]
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your prayers! Adam returned home safely this past Saturday evening. He did have his Dad take him to the Hospital late Saturday evening because he was not feeling well. He had something called “Acute Pharyngitis” but he is feeling much better now!
I finally was able to catch up with him at our friends home, Sven and Mary Thulin’s, last night. He promises to catch up with us soon and let us know some of the highlights of his trip.
A few things he did mention last night were:
Haiti has a 4% employment rate. 80% of the people are under the poverty line. 55% make less then a dollar/ day. He went to a town called Petit Goave for 3 days. They had no bathrooms to use, but only the Caribbean Sea for these 200 people. Adam’s team helped build a shelter out of tree branches and metal.
He was impressed with the local church they had in the center of the little town. He said “their faith is very strong and their worship is very intense.” One of the most important things I heard him say was that “As poor as they were, they were very content considering their situation”.
I guess, sometimes we just need to hear these things to remind ourselves of how blessed we really are.[…]



A small group in Santa Fe, New Mexico is claiming that the city is discriminating against them by having wireless networks in public buildings. How are these buildings discriminatory? Simple. These people are allergic to Wi-Fi.




1 year ago – pepper picture (first harvest from the garden), navicat, website revamp thoughts, sweet sue’s secret ingredient, 9 million bicycles

2 years ago – newtcam server down, social kicks up, movies, quizzes, juice newton

3 years ago – power outage, scruffies, grow an armchair, Audry Landers/ woodchuck/ Gene Rayburn, don’t step in the cake, swat monkey, em’s ink, best quote ever, soap for meth, Man Arrested for Wearing Grinch Mask, letter from mp, bro call, peacekeeping purse

4 years ago – animated newt pic, open courseware, a lovely phone call, athenos reply, name meme

5 years ago – Cross-sections, candy bars and otherwise, panoramas, hut-building, surreal candy, there b3 features, wvum, world as blog

6 years ago – Memorial Day, documentation, Jakushitsu, Animal crackers, flash & the elongated man, sleeping late with a cat, what’s better. (First appearance for the Newton-yawn icon)

7 years ago – nice dreams, four legs good, two legs bad, saw Shrek, first mobile entry from the laptop

8 years ago – I’d not yet committed to daily entriesGeotargetVisitor Map

8513 – midweek, or the first day of my workweek

Just about a week before launch.. I really hope that work doesn’t need to call me while I’m out of state. I have to remember to let Fatima know that I need to reschedule her cleaning.


Fined For Using Someone Else’s WiFi


Got a Wu update from Danny – Doug sounds like he’s taking to fatherhood well and is still has a focus on music. It’s hard to believe that his daughter is already 10 months old! Speaking of a gamer’s babies – (not Doug’s)

I wonder what his THAC0 is?

level 1 human


For me to test on a sample machine later. Password bypass


The Secret Life of Walter Kitty – Illos for the coming book.


1 year ago – german link issues, hillbilly Kung-Fu zombie movie, Magda, free wifi, Abednego, bro release coming

2 years ago – Alabama Opens, local eats, fortune cookie, free fonts, how to build a universe, Florida weather/FEMA, Hurricane Disney prep, Oriental, Indian Circus-folk, lj-stats

3 years ago – Sleepy newtpic, I hate the diamond industry, Idi “VD” Amin dead, Crocodile men form the congo

4 years ago – day in chunks, Arnold sells some crazy Japanese thing, twee

5 years ago – pet/work poll, epenthesis

6 years ago – ebooks, hungryGeotarget

7471 – Summer +1

Humpty-hump. The week is going by both swiftly and slowly in turns.

I’ve been using my spoiler highlighter a lot lately.


Tom Cruise Killing Oprah. Dang, that Scientology really is powerful stuff! via Filed under, “oh, if only”.

See also: Jedi Squirrels.


Going with Dan on tomorrow, but the understanding is there If I want to fly solo later on. Maybe Batman?


Foxit, freeware Windows alternative to Acrobat Reader
Adobe reader is horrid… this is far better.


Got Season 2, Episode 12 of JLU. Divided We Fall, Lots of good moments – “Begone”, etc. Worst moment, integrating 3-d cgi models into the show… it’s not needed and is pointlessly distracting. The last episode of the season, unless they have a puff piece one-shot for #13. Vimoh got lucky… no cliffhanger after all. 12 episodes rather than last season’s 13?

Spoilers: Nice use of how Brainiac was just a green Lex Luthor, really. Good Psychological Warfare using the Justice Lords. Awesome use of the speed force with Wally. Groovy Proof of purpose at the end, and The change of JLU from being an army in an ivory tower to a more approachable crew. Embassies. Wide open for a JLI season 3. I liked that they fell back on the classic League crew to sew up the end, and Green Arrow’s speech was solid.

Bibleman is coming to My Hometown!!!

Jul 22, 2005 / 7:30 PM
Calvary Chapel Church
2401 W. Cypress Creek Road
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309
(954) 315-4272

A better Breakdown about Bibleman than I have time to write.

Or just watch the preview trailers on this page. Cringe-worthy, when you can say that ElectraWoman and DynaGirl has better dialog, and a kinder message. (and cuter people in spandex.)

Actually, If you must watch one preview, watch the opening Credits for ElectraWoman and DynaGirl. Frank was a lucky man. Tarantulas! Rattlesnakes! Tigers! Sonic Blasts destroying snifters of brandy! Scary Rock-and-roll villains with a green afro! (His name was Glitter Rock.)

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl fighting off evil deeds.
Each works for a magazine, hiding the life she leads.

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl summoned to Electra-base by the electracoms they wear.
Lori and Judy dare to face any criminal anywhere.

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl !

Man, I had a huge crush on Judy. (as long as she stayed away form that Metamorphosis Formula #5.)

I won’t be attending the Bibleman show… but maybe I’ll go check out what sort of crowd it collects.


I’ve been really sleepy these last two weeks. Not sure what’s up with that.. physically tired. Summertime blues? Usually I have a good charge to my batteries… maybe it’s the rain.


Portable rotary phone, just add your sim card. Now that’s cool.


Homeless shelter stops serving bear meat

(or, as springheel_jack puts it: Glory Hole Stops Accepting Bears)

Continue reading 7471 – Summer +1

7398 – Thursday.

I would like someone to give me a big bag of money so that I can retire in comfort, without financial woes.

Barring that, I’d like someone to make a loaf of banana bread for me.

Or just to slack off and sleep in, snuggled down with Newt.

not today… but there is a long weekend coming up! Slackfest!


Cracking WEP in 10 minutes.


forget-me-not panties™
“These panties will monitor the location of your daughter, wife or girlfriend 24 hours a day, and can even monitor their heart rate and body temperature. Use our patented mapping system, pantyMap®, to find the exact location of your loved one 24 hours a day.”

See, I could see this as being really useful to monitor kids… but the application is nuts here. (I suspect it’s a gag – see comments as to why)


sithy meme

6750 – misc.

7/2/04 8:13 pm @ the laundry, once again.

no wireless today… It looks like the doctor next door shut down for the long weekend. No matter, I have plenty of things to read or write offline.

Ü – The Shoo-smilie. I still prefer it to 🙂 or ^_^ for a happy face.

hungry for Chinese takeout tonight, but I think I’ll hold out until Sunday call.

I haven’t been in reading mode this week… Still reading, but not the massive quantities usually digested.

Tired eyes, awake mind this evening. Maybe a music night… maybe a horseplay night with Newt.

8:57pm place started empty, but now hopping with people. got to love the variety… mostly young people.

For no good reason whatsoever, my bootup image on the palm –

6739 -I am the Menace from the Purple Planet!

Le Prince Bleu – nifty movie, and the soundtrack is great. Site Meter


Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields: amazing research on this site, which among many nationwide listings (including a *lot* of notable Maryland fields), has two separate listings of Miami-area airfields, including some amazing old photos of Dinner Key, several others.


hmm… email posts did work from the road, fortunately, I cc’ed my regular email.

Pasted –

6/26/04 1:37 pm in front of courthouse .

3 wifi access points, all closed. named BOSS (45), glodemo(40), and scales(40). strong signals, considering the distance from the building to the road.

6/26/04 2:11 pm – rte 10, fed hwy.

bus population –

driver – all business white man, 50 or older. jet black hair, likely dyed. an anachronism… professional in a business full of the rude and slovenly. probably a hard case with mooch-riders, but returned my ‘afternoon’ greeting.

1 Asian mid/late teens boy, with older Asian girl, 20ish speaking mandarin, as far as I can tell. happy.

all-female family unit; black grandma [50’s], mamma [25ish], and two kids, 7, and maybe 2. all but the smallest wearing khaki blouses and blue jeans. youngest wearing a pink sun dress, stark contrast… highlight of the group – cutie. older sis eating corn chips from a brown paper bag.

white man, paint-spattered t-shirt and jeans. has some sort of paperwork in a grocery bag., along with a banana. he sits quietly, face vacant.

older white woman, retirement age. clean clothes, but filthy carry on. i wonder if she’s homeless. well-equipped… wristwatch and glasses in good repair.

passing the hustler store, under construction – taking applications. maybe i should tell bro.

rowdy teens got on, at the gateway theater – were sternly warned by driver to be good. intimidation seems to have worked for the moment.

teens good until off the bus, then yelled “smoke weed!” once going out the door. i haven’t heard it called weed for a long while… usually just pot or smoke.


Nepal Tries To Appease Sweating Deity Continue reading 6739 -I am the Menace from the Purple Planet!

6725 No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger.

Summertime! Happy Solstice, dear journal.


FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONSATTENTION ALL GROWNUPS. Your “inner child” has long been waiting for a chance to usurp control of your body and force it to perform certain actions. The time is now at hand. Read and follow the instructions below. Do this now.

I *still* do a lot of these, especially the “kaboom” and “Waskilly Wabbit” thing now and then.


Bah, no funds for any adsense clickthroughs lately. My average is down to about $0.15 a day. I suspect that the banners will be removed at the end of this month.Site Meter

It also looks like my doodleboard hasn’t really taken off as a drawing space, either. Well, it’s an easy pseudo palm-doodle program that saves me the effort of uploading to the website, if nothing else.



Rejected Psycho-Scotto Icon.
*too scary* I was thinking of replacing my color-cycle zombie, but nah.

http://userpic.livejournal.com/16296458/3397
Added Newt eskimo-kiss/headbutt
(Because you can’t have enough newt-icons)


CDC information on extreme heat.


A bike that gives free wireless Internet!

Magicbike is a mobile WiFi hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked. By turning a common bicycle into a wireless hotspot, Magicbike explores new delivery and use strategies for wireless networks and modern-day urbanites. Wireless bicycles disappear into the urban fabric and bring Internet to yet unserved spaces and communities. Mixing public art with techno-activism.


I’m glad it never gets cold enough in Florida to need Earbags.


Did they make banana pudding pops, or is that just a product of a fevered memory?


Out of the fog, into the smog. until later, dear journal.

6725 No Anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man. I spell my name Danger.

Summertime! Happy Solstice, dear journal.


FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONSATTENTION ALL GROWNUPS. Your “inner child” has long been waiting for a chance to usurp control of your body and force it to perform certain actions. The time is now at hand. Read and follow the instructions below. Do this now.

I *still* do a lot of these, especially the “kaboom” and “Waskilly Wabbit” thing now and then.


Bah, no funds for any adsense clickthroughs lately. My average is down to about $0.15 a day. I suspect that the banners will be removed at the end of this month.Site Meter

It also looks like my doodleboard hasn’t really taken off as a drawing space, either. Well, it’s an easy pseudo palm-doodle program that saves me the effort of uploading to the website, if nothing else.



Rejected Psycho-Scotto Icon.
*too scary* I was thinking of replacing my color-cycle zombie, but nah.

http://userpic.livejournal.com/16296458/3397
Added Newt eskimo-kiss/headbutt
(Because you can’t have enough newt-icons)


CDC information on extreme heat.


A bike that gives free wireless Internet!

Magicbike is a mobile WiFi hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked. By turning a common bicycle into a wireless hotspot, Magicbike explores new delivery and use strategies for wireless networks and modern-day urbanites. Wireless bicycles disappear into the urban fabric and bring Internet to yet unserved spaces and communities. Mixing public art with techno-activism.


I’m glad it never gets cold enough in Florida to need Earbags.


Did they make banana pudding pops, or is that just a product of a fevered memory?


Out of the fog, into the smog. until later, dear journal.

Spoke briefly but pleasantly with my brother after playing a considerable amount of phone tag this afternoon… it seems that Francesco (his landlord) took my suggestions of cleaning the place up to heart after a potential tenant decided not to lease after seeing it sans a coat of paint and a good cleaning. Latest word is that the Terrazzo will be overlaid with tile or carpet. I hope tile, much simpler with a pair of hirsute boys living there…though Newt sheds more than I do. The bro apparently sold him on my moving in with true tales of my reliability with payment schedules and quiet living. (No bills overdue or crack use here!) Also, Francesco likes my brother… he’s been a good tenant with him since he arrived back from Hawaii. I’m quite enthusiastic about living next door… He and I both have enough respect for one another to call before coming over, even if we only live two doors apart.

I’m also hoping that it comes through, because it’s one of the better deals financially for the district… taking into account that cable will be free, I’ll be paying about $15 less a month than I am now. I’ll finally get the History channel unscrambled, and the Sci-fi channel again. (Is there anything worth watching on Sci-fi anymore? I used to only watch it for the Bionic Woman and the odd 60’s shows…Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants… I hear that the original programming is a little feeble.)

Doable would be running a wireless network (or heck, even a cable, maybe if need be) between here and the outside courtyard… maybe into my brother’s place, too, for multiplayer gaming, or just to let him surf from his place at DSL speed. I imagine that I’d be burning more CD’s for him now, as he discovers the wonders of file-sharing.

I like being closer to the bro, being able to help him out and be more social.

Variables off the top of my head to take care of when I move into a new place:

  • Theft / Disaster insurance
  • Parking for the future bike – I may end up just keeping it in the apartment, by the door.
  • DSL or Cable High-speed access (looks like both are available)
  • Shopping Areas, particularly for groceries, books, and hippy-goods.
  • A separate green-grocer?
  • Places to walk, parks, beaches, etc.
  • Library
  • Laundry
  • Takeout & Sit Down – Thai, Chinese, American, Spanish and Italian
  • Nearness to Police / Ambulance / Fire Stations (Close enough to be quickly served, far enough away to be quietly served.)
  • Bus Routes / Taxi / Metro Rail
  • Possible New places of contract employment?
  • Local Human & Animal Hospitals
  • A local map is going to be a must… do like I did when I first moved to Pompano from Davie… put it on the fridge, or a corkboard.
  • Clothes Store
  • Shoe Store
  • Blood Donation Center
  • How’s the night sky’s light index?

From metafilter –

And The Winner Is….
Hurray! I can finally sleep at night, the new M&M color is Purple. The intro is a bit annoying, but the flash page they have to show voting stats by country is kinda nifty. mmmmmm…purpliscious

The new money will be called NexGen
The Treasury and Federal Reserve make it official: Starting in 2003, U.S. currency will have pretty colors. But they don’t say which colors!
Is anyone else creeped out that they call the money “NexGen”? It sounds so … Orwellian.